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James Fallows Tierney

@jamesftierney.bsky.social

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Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7h

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 13h

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 6h

I picked this album up at a Newbury Comics in Boston in like 2000 thinking it was a jazzy jam band and was blown away

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 6h

November’s traditional album: Cap’n Jazz’s Analphabetapolothogy

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Analphabetapolothology | Pitchfork

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 17h

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores."

www.nber.org/papers/w34434

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17h

"Expanded access to legal cannabis has not worsened respiratory health overall"

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Emma voted Zohran & YES on 2-5 @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 1d

The right has correctly identified the professional-managerial class as the class with the most revolutionary potential in the current period and have directed all their energies to destroy it before it becomes aware of itself and its own power

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 17h

I assumed z scores?

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 21h

u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself, I’m the nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer slash hipster trust fund socialist

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

I actually really love Phoenix, notwithstanding the valley of the interminable sun’s treatment of standard time and daylight savings time.

James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Had a lovely time in Phoenix this weekend for Judge Mary Schroeder’s 50th anniversary on the bench.

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself, I’m the nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyer slash hipster trust fund socialist

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

If both you and your partner make $95,000/year or more, you are in the top 10% of earners.

A really underappreciated issue in American politics is that there are many rich people who do not wish to acknowledge that they are, in fact, rich.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

Top 10% by income now getting half of all consumption

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Look, this is what any attention-seeking news outlet would do if they were honest and not captured by ref-working

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven)

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Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans - ProPublica

As part of the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government has provided hundreds of billions in financial support to banks to make low-interest loans to companies and nonprofit organizations i...

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

I found the article referenced (which the author could have cited directly but didn't). Teachers biggest concern with AI use is student over reliance on it.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Table 12 from linked article. Shows that 30% mentioned student over reliance on AI.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I try to explain to a normie why politicized hiring is bad for universities or government, will use Belichick as an example

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 2d

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

My hypothesis: Not a single person at this party has actually read Great Gatsby.

Of, for 1% that have, it was in high school, and they never thought about it.

It is *not* a happy-ending book. Or one flattering to dressed-up Mar-a-Lago type crowds.

Or to greedy rich desperate for social approval

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)